I think another reason Hillary might not run is I strongly suspect her health is not the best.

Campaigns are brutal & grueling marathons of physical exertion, as she knows from bitter experience. How many presidential candidates get into the race not realizing until it's too late the toll it takes on the lives of their families?

Bill Kristol's analysis convinced me there are huge, perhaps insurmountable negatives for Hillary running. But she will gather unto the Clintons what is theirs before announcing.

Minyon refers to Minyon Moore, a longtime Democratic activist with ties to the Clintons, who also has alleged ties to Washington businessman Jeffrey Thompson, who just ratted out Washington DC Mayor Vincent Gray for allegedly asking him to fund an illegal shadow campaign to help elect Gray.

Is that enough “allegedly” to make your eyes glaze over?

Clift using the term "ratted out" to describe providing evidence to prosecutors, then repeatedly and dismissively invoking the term "allegedly" herself, only makes Hilary sound more corrupt.

It's in that context that the local establishment nervously awaited the arrival of "Chicagoland," the big eight-part CNN series by Executive Producer Robert Redford.**** And, yes, Mr. Emanuel does come across pretty good, ****Mr. Emanuel ought to be happy. He is presented as a dedicated sort, a would-be problem solver whose heart is in the right place, even if you may disagree with his strategy.

Could all (3) Emanuel brothers please leave the building? The world would be better off.

Rahm just got rolled by the teacher's union and many are urging Karen Lewis to run against him. (Just what Chicago needs, their own DeBlasio.) Toni Preckwinkle, Cook County Board President is also being urged to run against him. Toni could win.

Rham for president? Surely you jest. Althouse has it occurred to you that you have a better chance of getting elected president than Rham? At least you don't have his baggage and come to think you also don't have Hillary's baggage. You have a hugely popular blog with who knows how many readers-most who might even vote for you or at least seriously consider voting for you. You couldn't possibly be a worse president than any of the presumed Democrats in the field. Even if you tried.

I agree with Crack. there's no way Hillary is not running. she's mobilized the troops, warned off potential opponents and hogging the money. I think the Dems will clear her path. 2016 is going to be hard enough without a long primary season,

Boy if she doesn't run then there will be a huge fight on the Dem side. Cuomo as moderate and a bunch of bat shit crazy libs.

I can see her putting off making a decision, or indeed, announcing that she's running, fully intending on raising as much money as possible and then bowing out due to "health concerns".

The giveaway, which will be camouflaged under layers of deniability of course, would be to look at what money raised is available to the candidate of a failed campaign and that which is not, and watch the actions of her people with that in mind.

Seriously though, Rahm may have the name recognition, but he has a god awful record in Chicago not to mention the attitude and personal charisma of an anubis baboon. It would take some real magic from the Democrat campaign machine to make him electable (not that I doubt their immense power in that department).

I saw former Secretary Clinton speak a few days ago. she stood about 15 feet away from the nearest teleprompter, so there could be no mistaking it, & used no notes. She told stories about her experience dealing with Putin, her experience being a female attorney in Arkansas, and otherwise about her experience. She was funny and relaxed. Her lapel mike went out and she didn't miss a beat in switching to a hand-held. She is staying in practice for campaigning.

In an early look at the 2016 presidential race in Iowa, Secretary Clinton leads Gov. Christie 48 - 35 percent, reversing a 45 - 40 percent Christie lead December 17, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.

Secretary Clinton has substantial leads over other Republican contenders, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University poll finds:

1-Your are right, she is running.2-The polls you cite mean nothing.Hillary for better or worse has been in the public eyes for 23 years. None of the potential Republican candidates you mention is really on the public's radar right now. And Jeb is a Bush so he has that against him. Obama was a national nobody when he started and so for that matter was Bill Clinton.

So while Hillary is no ways tired come 2016 odds are the public will be tired of her and probably any Democrat. The Democrats campaigned in 2008 to fix the economy. The voters gave them a chance in 2008. Then they claimed the Republican's messed it up so bad that we need a second chance so the voters gave them the benefit of the doubt and gave them a second chance. Now here we are five years later and the economy still sucks and as long as the Democrats continue their economic policies the economy will still suck in 2016. It takes a lot of hope that the voters will give them a third chance.

Eleanor Clift is a reliable Clinton partisan. So I read this as an attempt to see how many people jump up to say "Oh no, please Hillary run for our sake!"* Kind of like having Caesar refuse the crown in full view of Rome.

It's strange how "presumptive front-runner" Hillary got beat in 2008 by a junior Senator from Illinois that no one outside of the Democratic Party inner circles had ever heard of.

So, what's changed in the Democratic Party since then? That the left-wing despises the moderate wing? No. That the Democratic Party's manner of tabulating votes towards nomination favors challengers? No. That the Democrats & the country have had their black president & think it's time for a woman now? Yes, but, unlike the blacks, the womenfolk don't vote as a block, ever (e.g. remember Geraldine Ferraro?).

Always remember that in 2007, according to the pundits, it was going to be Giuliani vs Clinton. How'd that work out? It's tough business seeing the future.

You could be right. Politics is usually hope over experience so there is always that possibility. Hillary is much more of an ideologue than Bill and possibly more than Obama and presumably more ruthless and competent than Obama. So if she does win or appears to be winning expect a tidal wave of capital flight out of the country. A lot of American money left in 2008/2009 and most of it hasn't returned yet. If the Democrats do ok in November and Hillary gets elected in 2016 expect a lot more money leaving the country. Money that isn't invested in the US doesn't create many jobs in the US.

Gotta agree with the landslide prediction. Maximum free stuff+first woman+slavish media hype=electoral victory. It'll suck for the country but it's something we'll have to get out of our system before we can move on.

"Campaigns are brutal & grueling marathons of physical exertion, as she knows from bitter experience. How many presidential candidates get into the race not realizing until it's too late the toll it takes on the lives of their families?"

The Cracker Emcee said...Gotta agree with the landslide prediction. Maximum free stuff+first woman+slavish media hype=electoral victory. It'll suck for the country but it's something we'll have to get out of our system before we can move on.

I have no idea how A) Republicans think they can win by implying poor Americans - especially those made poor by America - are moochers looking for "free stuff" and B) helping Americans succeed in life will hurt the country overall.

Oh I know black people. I just don't know a lot of "The Crack Emcee" kind of black people. The ones I know you would be calling uncle tom or sellout or some of those other wonderful names you save for blacks that don't agree with the things you say.

Todd said...Oh I know black people. I just don't know a lot of "The Crack Emcee" kind of black people. The ones I know you would be calling uncle tom or sellout or some of those other wonderful names you save for blacks that don't agree with the things you say.

I don't either - pay the estimated $100 Trillion dollars blacks are owed for their free labor during the crime of slavery and you're off the hook."

Well I ain't paying and no one else is stepping up to the plate so your choices are to hire the best collection lawyers in the universe or write off the debt. Or you can take payment in Zimbabwe Dollars. It's your choice.

No I heard about this and it's slightly less delusional since how exactly are the Caricom countries going to effect the collection? The Europeans might throw some cash their way- it might assuage their feelings but real money? You have to be kidding if this is your basis of calling someone uniformed. Let us know when the Caricom invasion fleet is going to sailing up the Thames to collect the debt.

In 1962 - before the Civil Rights Act, etc. - 87% of whites didn't think there was anything unfair then either.

Some things never change,...

Correct. The Meritocracy was in full force back then, and they saw what they saw, and said what they saw.

Nowadays, two things have changed. It is politically incorrect to notice how a 'meritocracy' affects Blacks, and, via their Liberal 'friends', Blacks are benefiting from the beating back of the Meritocracy itself.

"Bob, no amount of money can make up for what's happened - it's not even the point. The point is to give a damn."

My son didn't get a soda tonight at dinner. He had to drink water. This upset him. He decided he was going to pout in order to get his mother and me to give a damn. The more he pouted and whined and cried about it, the less of a damn we gave. And we made clear to him that a negative attitude is meant with negative consequences.

Like my son, Crack, you need to grow up. I don't plan to give a damn about anyone who screeches at me like you do.

I don't either - pay the estimated $100 Trillion dollars blacks are owed for their free labor during the crime of slavery and you're off the hook.

What, so that is your price for "justice"? $100 Trillion? Is that in 1700s dollars or today's dollars? Which "blacks" get a piece of the pie? Those that were actually slaves or is this like the Pigford thing and anyone "black" can play? Who determines who is legally "black" for inclusion in this class action?

Wait - didn't you leave out the part where you chopped off his dick and so, without a dick he couldn't pee, and that's the reason he was crying?

He didn't cut off anyone's dick, I didn't and no one I know did. No one you know cut any dicks or lost dicks. WHAT IS YOUR POINT?

We're just crying babies - nobody did shit to us.

Now we are making headway! "White" didn't do ANYTHING to YOU. You did all of whatever you are to YOURSELF! You made the choices that put you where you are today. You keep tilling at windmills, worst you are tilling at yesterday's windmills. You keep yelling about wanting whites to acknowledge their racism but admit it is racism they don't see but you do. Just maybe there is none to see and it is just people treating others good and bad as people do. Today shit happens. Some good and some bad. Some to blacks and some to whites. There is no grand conspiracy of evil white KKK members ruling everything. If you really, really want to do something to help blacks, take your own advice and admit that it is culture and that today's black culture does not support black success. With the help of liberal whites, black culture is currently designed to breed just the social conditions that we have today.

"White" didn't do ANYTHING to YOU. You did all of whatever you are to YOURSELF!

So I made the banks redline blacks? I made real estate agents limit where we could live? I refused to build grocery stores in black neighborhoods? I am responsible for police corruption and shit like Rodney King?

Crack: So I made the banks redline blacks? I made real estate agents limit where we could live? I refused to build grocery stores in black neighborhoods? I am responsible for police corruption and shit like Rodney King?

Yes, by the very same standards you are holding whites to, all these things are your fault.

Even moreso, because you were alive when they happened (unlike the whites here you blame for slavery and racism).

The banks were correct to not make loans to folks with little chance of paying them back, regardless of their color. Do you not understand that basic principle of human nature and economics?

I made real estate agents limit where we could live?

People want to live in nice and safe neighborhoods. Typically, those are neighborhoods where people respect each other, and law and order. Not places where the operative vibe is "snitches get stitches", and everyone hates on the police.

I refused to build grocery stores in black neighborhoods?

Have you SEEN the grocery stores in black neighborhoods? They exist, and they are dangerous places. Why would any sane businessman build there? Fix the neighborhood first. Then the stores will come.

I am responsible for police corruption and shit like Rodney King?

Ah, the old "as long as there is corruption anywhere, I'm going to use that fact of human nature as cop-out." canard. Nice excuse. One can use it forever.

And a Rodney King-like beat down happens multiple times each day, black on black. Concern yourself with those. Heal thyself.

Because what the country really needs is a sleazy insider who will give huge amounts of public funds to private interests.

(Chicago is giving De Paul University $125M for a new basketball arena. Why not? It's not as though the city has anything better to spend the money on, right?)

If Emanuel ran - it would be interesting. He would be only the second Jewish candidate (AFAIK). He would also be the only candidate whose father was a member of the Irgun. I suspect that would trigger meltdown on the hairy Left.